Russell C. Smith has lived in Seattle, Washington since 1987, just before coffee, computers, and Grunge music put Seattle on the map. As a Senior Digital Copywriter Russell delivers engaging website content designed to clarify and capture each organization’s marketing message. He has written copy for websites, microsites, landing pages, online ads, organic SEO content, and many other types of marketing content and corporate communications. Russell is currently at work on a nonfiction book with co-author Michael Foster, and working on a YA paranormal mystery.

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Entries by Russell C. Smith

The recent terrorist murders in Paris have clearly shown free-thinking citizens of planet Earth that what matters in creating a sustainable future for life, love, and creativity is the universal ideal of free expression.

From the beginning of a career spanning more than 40 years, Dave Sabey has sought out people with a fresh perspective, an inspired vision and a relentless sense of purpose. Among his earliest developments were building Boeing Electronics clean rooms, constructing an early ADP data center, building and owning one...

Tree Swenson is the Executive Director of Hugo House, a nonprofit writing center based in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. She was a cofounder and Executive Director of Copper Canyon Press for twenty years. She served as the Director of Programs for the Massachusetts Cultural Commission for ten years. She was...

Reinvention has unseated innovation as the it word for our times. If you spend any time at all looking for it, you'll notice it's everywhere. Companies use it to describe a major shift, people use it to announce a big change, and countries show it by reinvigorating how they interact...

Humanity invented many forms of culture and technology over the centuries, pushing civilization ahead until we've arrived here and now. Inventions transformed human beings into new, more adaptive types of people. We created more time by creating time-saving tools, and have taken ourselves off our planet in metal projectiles.

As we step into the year 2104 our minds are grappling with a future arriving so fast we're playing evolutionary catch-up just to stay current. While cable news taunts viewers with the same old made-up political battles, the most enjoyable thing about being alive now is that our near future...

For many people the world over, reinvention in the 21st Century is a matter of life or death. Adapt or die. It's a real life game of survival of the fittest and the smartest. With "The Hunger Games," movies franchise this powerful social idea has been taken to...

Ron Erickson is a seasoned executive with more than 30 years of experience in the high technology, telecommunications, micro-computer, and digital media industries. Mr. Erickson is also the founder of Visualant, Inc. In addition to his Visualant responsibilities, he also serves as Chairman of eCharge Corporation...

We are collectively the most documented human beings who have ever lived on Earth. We're leaving a digital legacy of our entire lives for all to see, and future generations will have the ability to access extremely detailed information about us. Because the technology allowing us to constantly update our...

If you're in the process of reinventing your career, your corporation, your perspective on health or wealth, or your corner of the planet, you're making a series of incremental difficult decisions, and letting go of what held you back yesterday. If you're working on a project or helping to create...

Poet Gary Lemons has the kind of insight that puts him ahead of the curve from his contemporaries. His former poetry books "Bristol Bay" and "Fresh Horses" were prime examples of lyric poetry accompanied by a unique voice. His current collection of poems, "Snake," imagines a post-apocalypse Earth...

Poet Gary Lemons has the kind of insight that puts him ahead of the curve from his contemporaries. His former poetry books "Bristol Bay" and "Fresh Horses" were prime examples of lyric poetry accompanied by a unique voice. His current collection of poems, "Snake," imagines a...

Look around. We are all now makers, creators, and the people who will decide the future of the world. Remaking, renewing, and reinventing are propelling us forward. Looking to the future and the past, we ask ourselves what really matters. And we're each building our own answers from...

In the sexually-charged 1960s, Hugh Hefner believed Playboy magazine and Playboy Clubs helped push the feminist movement forward by allowing women to exploit their own sexuality. Over the next two decades, several waves of feminism changed American culture -- with women gaining more control...

The American experience has always been one of starting over, rethinking, reworking, and reinventing.

In the early 21st Century, a reinvention movement is taking place at all levels of society. Reinvention belongs to everyone. It isn't a commodity. It's an idea, a meme, a fluid structure, a new way of...